Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.
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A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family.
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.